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Agricultural Development in the World Periphery : A Global Economic History Approach
Pinilla, Vicente (ed.); Willebald, Henry (ed.) - 2018
This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world’s peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors. The contributors to this volume proffer an understanding of the processes of agricultural transformations and...
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Famine and Finance : Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland
Goodspeed, Tyler Beck - 2017
The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to blight during the Great Famine of Ireland. The author argues that the worst affected districts with a microfinance fund experienced substantially smaller population declines and...
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The Evolution of Agricultural Credit during China’s Republican Era, 1912–1949
Fu, Hong; Turvey, Calum G. - 2018
In the modern era, China’s rural credit landscape is transforming at a dizzying rate, but, in terms of financial development, these changes represent a second attempt in the past 100 years to reform China’s credit institutions and provide credit access to farmers. The first period was during...
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Land and Credit : Mortgages in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside
Briggs, Chris (ed.); Zuijderduijn, Jaco (ed.) - 2018
1. Introduction: mortgages and annuities in historical perspective -- 2. Mortgages and the English peasantry c.1250-c.1350 -- 3. Mortgages raised by rural English copyhold tenants 1605-1735 -- 4. Mortgages and the Kentish yeoman in the seventeenth century -- 5. Why the equity of redemption? 6....
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Raising Capital or Improving Risk Management and Efficiency? : Key Issues in the Evolution of Regulation and Supervision in European Banks
Colombini, Fabiano (ed.) - 2018
1. Introduction -- 2. Risk management and banking business in Europe -- 3. Credit risk management and banking business … in Europe -- 4. Banking efficiency in Europe -- 5. Capital constraints by regulation in Europe -- 6. Capital constraints … by supervision in Europe -- 7. Bank regulation and supervision in Europe -- 8. Monetary policy, bank supervisory policy …
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Capacity Building in Technology Transfer : The European Experience
Granieri, Massimiliano (ed.); Basso, Andrea (ed.) - 2019
This book tells the story of capacity building in Europe with respect to technology transfer offices and organizations … (TTOs). The traditional underdevelopment of technology markets in Europe has often been explained in terms of lack of …
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Women's Entrepreneurship in Europe : Multidimensional Research and Case Study Insights
Birkner, Stephanie (ed.); Ettl, Kerstin (ed.);  … - 2018
Part 1: Research Studies -- 1. Women’s Entrepreneurship in Europe - Research Facets and Educational Foci -- 2. Female … informal institutional context -- 7. Entrepreneurship Education and Gender in Europe: A Systematic Literature Review of Studies …
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Trends in Tourist Behavior : New Products and Experiences from Europe
Artal-Tur, Andrés (ed.); Kozak, Metin (ed.);  … - 2019
This book examines both how tourist behavior is being shaped by the new tourism products and segments that are appearing on the European market and how the tourist experience influences post-trip evaluation of destinations and of tourism and hospitality businesses. On this basis, practical...
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Maritime Container Port Security : USA and European Perspectives
Zhang, Xufan; Roe, Michael - 2019
Placing special emphasis on the significant security issues associated with modern container international transport, this book provides in-depth exploration on both the US and European Union port and shipping policy, and that of wider international trade. The authors take an original and...
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Acquisitions by Emerging Multinational Corporations : Motivation and Performance of Transactions in Western Europe and North America
Distler, Johannes - 2018
(EMNCs) in Western Europe and North America between 1994 and 2013. The findings indicate that most EMNCs were motivated to … motivation and performance of EMNCs in Western Europe and North America Target Groups Researchers and students in international … -- Acquisition motivation and performance of EMNCs in Western Europe and North America …
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